Zanimljiva misljenja o Lewisovoj talentiranosti.
Mark Hughes: "I also have to take seriously engineers who look at pieces of telemetry and insist he can occasionally do things that they have never seen anyone else able to do - even guys that have worked with Hakkinen and Senna. I don't ever hear that about any other driver."
"They all have their strengths and I've written extensively about them over the years. This was just a answer to a question. But I do think it significant that engineers who have worked with Senna, Hakkinen, Raikkonen, Alonso and also Hamilton say that Hamilton is the one they occasionally see do things that they have never seen anyone else able to do."
Lowe: His level? He is possessed of a natural talent beyond the norm even of a top F1 driver, is extravagantly gifted in the way only a handful of drivers have ever been. Neutral observers can see this very clearly and obviously. Those privileged to have had a close-up view of what it is he does in a car, some of the things he routinely achieves that would be seen as miraculous by others, can put meat upon the bones. Lewis is an extraordinary driver, he says. “The first time we ran him at McLaren [as a rookie late in 2006], I recall the guys looking at the steering trace at the Silverstone test. The oversteer corrections in all the braking zones and corner entries were massive. We were waiting for his feedback and he didn’t mention that. We asked ‘How’s the car on entry?’ and he said, ‘Fine’. His natural car control was extraordinary. Most drivers would have been quite unhappy with such instability.”
He is more comfortable with corner entry oversteer probably than any other driver on the grid and uses that as an asset. In simple terms, because of the way the aerodynamics work, F1 cars tend naturally to oversteer in high-speed corners and understeer at low speed. The more comfortable a driver is with high-speed oversteer, the less understeer he needs to tolerate at low speeds – and the faster the car is around the lap. Illustrious team-mates have discovered much the same things as the data engineers."
“In my time at Ferrari,” says one senior ex-Scuderia man, “Lewis was the only other driver Fernando [Alonso] worried about. Yes, other drivers might have been in faster cars and he’d accept that. But on a Grand Prix weekend whenever you’d discuss the challenges, it was only ever Hamilton that Fernando referenced as being a threat, solely because of what he could deliver as a driver. I think Fernando had matured since 2007 when, as a team-mate, he’d been shocked that a rookie could be at his level, be a threat to him immediately and had not reacted well. With hindsight, he understood that Hamilton alone stands as something beyond the norm. I got the impression that there was no one else on Fernando’s radar as a rival.”
Jenson Button infamously moved into ‘Hamilton’s team’ at McLaren in 2010 as reigning world champion. He was very confident – and instantly successful there. But as the season wore on, and he studied the telemetry details, he happened upon a moment of revelation. His message to his dad was along the lines of, ‘If ever Lewis works out how to get the best from himself and the engineers, the rest of us might as well go home.’ Publicly he said, “Lewis is one of the fastest drivers the sport has ever seen.” Sitting alongside at an FIA press conference, a surprised Lewis looked across and said thanks. His surprise wasn’t in the assessment, just the public recognition of it."
In one of those post session interviews in Abu Dhabi, with Toto wolf, they touched on the drivers' pace. After Austin, Lauda had said Lewis's pole lap in COTA was literally perfect, and when the guys brought that up, Toto said Nikki was not kidding, that the Austin lap surpassed their estimates, and the Abu Dhabi one blew past it by almost 3tenths. He said he couldn't believe it.
Kada je Lewis u elementu to otprilike izgleda ovako.
